Boeing’s 787 lands on hot seat over a few ‘minor’ mishaps

Originally published January 13, 2013 at 5:38 am

Updated January 14, 2013 at 4:38 pm

The Wrap by Ron Judd

It’s almost enough to make Mr. Wrap embarrassed to be a member of the media.

Boeing, formerly of Seattle, puts a new, cutting-edge airliner on the market at great risk and great expense. And all the nation’s nattering nabobs can focus on is the handful of completely expected, minor startup hiccups, like electrical storms on critical circuit boards, fuel spewing from wings and high-voltage batteries turning into molten, China Syndrome fireballs inside the fuselage.

Get a grip, folks. When you make the innovative decision to build a complicated machine in a hundred different places all over the globe, it takes some time to get all the pieces to play well together.

More smoke in the cockpit:

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